[System: Congratulations, Host, for receiving a system reward of 10,000 points of Spiritual Power. The second layer of the Eternal Tower has been unsealed, and your partner has received 10% of your Spiritual Power as a reward.]
They say a dark and moonless night is the best time for getting things done.
Spending the late evening strolling through the grove with Ilyx proved remarkably lucrative for this wealthy little ice-and-snow heiress.
She reaped a reward of 1,000 points of Spiritual Power.
Combined with his previous accumulations, he could safely and comfortably advance to a Tier 4 mage.
Only, Lin Jialu’s family was worried sick.
Although this young lady possessed an overflowing sense of justice, she hadn't brought a single entourage when she snuck out this time.
She had simply slipped away in secret to watch the commotion.
Yet the duel in the valley earlier had still managed to alarm high-level professionals from all directions.
Even though Long Xingyu had resolved the matter for him, the shattered bone fragments of those bone knights and skeleton mages remained scattered all over the ground.
A lingering scent of danger still hung in the air.
"What on earth is going on? Why didn't you people keep a proper eye on the young miss? Where is she?!"
Though Old Master Lin was himself a mage, in recent years he had poured all his heart into business and enterprise.
He had long since transformed into a local tycoon.
Yet what good did that do?
His own daughter was as pampered as she was haughty.
She simply had to go sneaking out all by herself to investigate.
And now look where that had gotten them!
The girl was gone!
"Uncle Lin, please don't worry, our Knight Hall will definitely help find her!"
On the other side, Hall Master Nalan of the Knight Hall wore a look of utter bewilderment.
When on earth had so many shady dark creatures appeared in the vicinity of their city?
Why hadn't there been a single warning?
Left with no other choice, he could only have Li Xin comfort Old Master Lin.
Although the relationship between this Hell Rose and Miss Lin wasn't particularly warm, they were, after all, peers who used to hang out together, and she could actually speak a word of sense before the elders.
Just as everyone was convinced that the young miss had met with misfortune, a servant came running over in a panic to report the news.
"Lords and ladies, the young miss is back in the city! A young probationary knight brought her home!"
Needless to say, that knight was none other than Ilyx.
The night was already deep, and he had indeed wanted to keep going.
Suddenly, however, Lin Jialu wanted to go home.
After all, this young lady had never once in her life tried spending the night away from home by herself.
And so, hand in hand with Ilyx, she appeared near the small cloud-flower grove by the Lin residence.
"Darling, I want to take you to meet my father. He will definitely agree to us being together!"
At this moment, Miss Lin had completely shed her previous domineering and willful demeanor.
Like a little bird clinging to a person, she pressed softly and limply against Ilyx's embrace.
Originally, Miss Lin had intended to present her family with a fait accompli by directly leading her young boyfriend to meet her parents.
Only upon returning home did she discover that the entire estate was completely empty.
Even the servants had all gone out looking for her.
"No problem. But there is one thing I must make clear: in the future, I will certainly have more than one woman by my side. Can you accept that?"
"I can! As long as there is a place for me in your heart!"
Good grief, was the Divine Maiden Furnace really this terrifyingly potent?
It had turned such a haughty and proud young lady into an absolute love-brain—and a thorough one at that!
Just as the two of them were slipping into another passionate kiss, a voice suddenly rang out from behind.
A voice intimately familiar to both Ilyx and Lin Jialu.
"Lin Jialu, you have gone too far! Everyone has been out searching for you everywhere, and here you are on a date!"
Well, Li Xin had arrived.
After their group had spent half the night searching outside, returning only to catch this young miss and a man all over each other, the Hell Rose instantly threw a fit.
The very next second, however, the little beauty froze once again.
Because after calming down, Li Xin suddenly realized that this back looked awfully familiar.
And those probationary knight garments—she had personally handed them to Ilyx herself this very morning.
"You—you guys!"
Gazing at the scene unfolding before her, the injustice of it all was simply too much to bear.
Hearing Li Xin's cry, Ilyx turned around quite calmly.
Slowly, he extended his right hand toward her.
"Come here."
"Oh."
This was an absolute dramatic plot twist.
Ordinarily, had she discovered someone stealing her boyfriend away, the Hell Rose's personality would have led to a storm of crying, making a scene, and perhaps even a duel.
Yet at this moment, she behaved as docilely as a little lamb.
Though her gaze remained filled with confusion and grievance, she still obediently stretched out her left hand like a little bird seeking shelter, tucking her head gently against Ilyx's other shoulder.
"Didn't I say before? In the future, I won't have just one woman among you. Can't you all accept this?"
At this moment, Ilyx had undoubtedly achieved a state of affairs that any man could only dream of.
His left arm cradled the gentle, wealthy young heiress, while his right arm held the slender waist of the Hell Rose.
He basked in the warmth of both embraces.
And though both women were inwardly stunned, the moment they looked up at Ilyx, their eyes instantly softened into pools of tenderness!
"Darling, I want to take you to meet my parents too. Is that alright?"
Perhaps seeing that Lin Jialu had beaten her to the punch, Li Xin suddenly felt a sharp sense of crisis.
She was desperate to immediately announce her relationship with Ilyx to the world.
"No problem, but let's skip an environment like today's, shall we? I'm afraid neither of your families would be very calm right now!"
Ilyx hadn't expected that he would be the one to stir up such a massive commotion.
Given that both Lin Jialu and Li Xin had deep-rooted, powerful families standing behind them, coupled with Long Xingyu's intervention earlier, tonight was destined to be a sleepless one.
As for Ilyx, he had now successfully won over two beauties while gaining access to the resources of the clans behind them.
For now, it was best to keep a low profile.
Getting entangled with the upper echelons of the empire too early was meaningless.
It was enough that these two young lasses were destined to be his women anyway.
"Mm, alright, I agree. When the time is right, I'll take you to meet my family!"
At this moment, Lin Jialu was behaving as obediently as a little kitten.
As she spoke, she quietly did one more thing than her companion standing beside her.
She produced a purple-gold card of an unspecified monetary value.
At any rate, it was undoubtedly enough for Ilyx to kit himself out in a full set of high-grade equipment.
The moment that card appeared, Xiao Xiao Number One, hovering invisibly nearby, instantly lit up.
"Master, I happened to spot a few decent items earlier. Let's go buy them! The shop seems to belong to your little girlfriend's family, too!"
This was a form of telepathic communication.
On the surface, the one man and two women were still lingering affectionately together, but Ilyx's mind was already planning far into the future.
Right now, he possessed over 15,000 points of Spiritual Power.
For a human professional, this was already quite impressive.
Yet on a true battlefield, it fell far short.
As the Scourge of the Undead, however, he only needed his equipment to reach a certain tier to autonomously increase his Spiritual Power infinitely.
"Mm, looks like it's time to make some preparations, and then head to Exorcist Pass to see Cai'er!"
As it turned out, Ilyx had a plan in mind all along.
For a Necromancer of his caliber, only places closest to death could foster rapid growth.
Without a doubt, the battlefield between humanity and the Demon Clan was the ultimate blessed land!
The undead of both humans and demons alike could provide him with an inexhaustible source of energy, allowing the former Scourge of the Undead to rise rapidly once more!